Have no fear, the October ish is here!

Imagine being cool.

Along with that, imagine sitting on the edge of your seat for the October issue of The Last Word. Well, the wait is over!

This ish talks about my Fernandina Beach trip, people drinking beer on the Cincinnati streetcar, accidentally brewing wine from apple juice, Hawaiian Punch bubble gum, 'Sesame Street' cereal, people selling garbage at yard sales, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/528633378/The-Last-Word-10-2021

If you can't read it on Scribd, you may find it here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2110.pdf

Butbutbut what about your sources?

A few words about sources for this blog's entries are in order. I don't mean humorous entries like "A Peter Cetera look-alike bubbled at Olive Garden." I mean serious news items.

This blog used to contain a lot more entries, and most were serious stories. Little by little, I stopped linking to various major news outlets, because they so clearly had a right-wing bias. After a few years, I don't think I even linked to any of America's over-the-air networks, and I think I stopped linking to CNN because it ran a discredited tabloid story claiming a mass shooter was a leftist. Now I very rarely link to any major media at all.

Lately, a few people have criticized me for not trusting major media, even as I quote Twitter blurbs from individuals. The people I follow on Twitter are more trustworthy than major media. Since the pandemic began, I've caught major media in lie after lie, designed to advance their bizarre fetish for continued COVID lockdowns and lockdown culture. Some of the media's statements were demonstrably false, and they also broke their promise that restrictions would be eased when we met certain goals.

I was assailed because the people I read on Twitter supposedly don't have the credentials the media has. That's simply not true. Some of them are statisticians who have advanced degrees, and most of their information is raw numbers, not editorial content that lets them twist things around. One of the best sources for COVID information is an accomplished public defender who became a civil liberties attorney. Two other sources are teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Others are doctors and epidemiologists.

They are not conspiracy theorists. The real conspiracy theorists are those in the media who actually claimed with a straight face that states were deliberately undercounting COVID deaths just so they'd have an excuse to lift lockdowns. Democrats and Republicans alike have been the target of this conspiracism - just as both parties were also lockdown perpetrators.

CNN and MSNBC keep whipping up fear among viewers who have become addicted to media fearmongering. These channels are as bad as Fox News was after 9/11. People have lost loved ones to these channels, as they lost others to Fox some 20 years ago. The FCC needs to step in and hold these channels accountable.

It is credentialism to claim that individuals on Twitter count less than established news sources. But it falls flat when you point out these Twitter folks have credentials that are just as strong as those of anyone else.

A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at Kroger, some woman bubbled.

Ploppings! Vomiting! Beer! Game day bucket go boom!

This weekend is Cincinnati's Oktoberfest - or, as I call it, Ploptoberfest.

After the city reduced the space for Ploptoberfest to make way for the dumb streetcar and then lied about it, I figured I'd start avoiding the event. But after last year's shitshow, I decided to give Ploptoberfest another chance.

This year was barely worth it for me, because I apparently have another gallbladder infection that spoiled the day, or I'm feeling the result of being stabbed by a sea urchin during last week's Florida trip. Some aspects of Ploptoberfest are starting to improve again, but they still haven't gotten anywhere near the glory of a decade ago. A lot of this is more Last Word material than 'Pail material, but I'll give a rundown of yesterday's events.

People plopped stuff. I noticed someone had put a plastic Hawaiian Punch bottle in the toilet. Later, I saw that someone had put a plastic Kroger bag in the toilet.

I threw up because of the suspected gallbladder infection.

I noticed that people were drinking beer on the streetcar - in stark violation of an Allowed Cloud.

Also, some woman was in a festive enough mood that she bubbled a humongous bub.

Gum Fighter takes on Alice Cooper (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Sorry to report the death at age 92 of Don Collier, Western actor who played the Gum Fighter in the Hubba Bubba bubble gum commercials of the 1970s and 1980s.

In a media interview, Collier said he really didn't like blowing bubbles with bubble gum. Yet bubble he did. Some of these Wild West-themed commercials had to be filmed in Australia so they could air in that country. Collier said in another interview that he had to travel to Australia twice to film the ads. But he liked Australia so much that he visited 6 more times. (That was before Australia became the military dictatorship it is today.) Some of the ads though were filmed in Arizona.

A Hubba Bubba commersh from 1981 showed the Gum Fighter getting into a bubble bustin' battle with an Alice Cooper look-alike...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cmEjR3d6KA

The Gum Fighter's adversary in that ad was played by the late Timothy Carey. A website once reported that Carey didn't know how to blow a bubble until he was hired to appear in the ad, and that his daughter had to show him how.

But the Gum Fighter won the showdown with Alice Cooper, and at the end of the ad, Collier's character declared, "Big bubbles, no troubles!" Then he laughed in a manner similar to Shadoe Stevens.

These commercials will live on as long as they dare!

Ohio mayor suspected of taking bribes from contractor

These days, only one thing seems to be worse than Ohio Republicans: Ohio Democrats.

On policy stances, they're practically the same thing now. And they're both corrupt.

In Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley - a leading Democratic candidate for governor - was suspected by the FBI of accepting a bribe from a demolition contractor. The contractor was also suspected of bribing other public officials. The alleged events took place in 2013-14.

The FBI said the contractor often threatened to "call the mayor" regarding a variety of situations. He told an informant he gave Whaley $50,000 in cash.

If that's really what happened, this isn't cool, Dems.

Sort of like the school closing fiasco.

Rip-off-fest is back! (Circus Vargas, Circus Vargas!)

Yesterday was annual soft drink smuggling day - also known as Riverfest.

I snuck Pepsi into the festival - in defiance of their timeworn rule against bringing in beverages. I didn't get to do it last year because of all the stupid, but everything was back to normal this year!

Among those watching the fireworks from the Newport floodwall, there was some kid who was about 10 years old who had a huge column of snot dangling from his nose!

Also, a young woman walking along Dave Cowens Drive in front of the floodwall was in such a festive mood that she bubbled.

Someone bunkerooed again

Last night at a small family gathering, someone released an SBD bunkdoodle.